Author Archives: Roisin Astell

Call for Submissions: Special Issue Miradas Journal: ‘Experience and Reception of Images, Objects, and Spaces in the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas’, deadline 26 January 2024

he next Special Issue of the journal Miradas, will focus on the analysis of the experience and reception of images, objects, and spaces in the territories of the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.

New Publication: ‘The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich’, edited by Amy Gillette and Zachary Stewart

The focus of this new book, is a 16-century baptismal font canopy of the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is one of only three such structures to survive anywhere in the British Isles.

CFP: ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’, The Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium, deadline 31 January 2024

Paper submissions are invited for the 2024 Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium which focuses on the theme ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’.

Conference: ‘SUPERFICIES Surfaces, Skins and Textures Sensory Encounters with Books and Related Multi-layered Objects’, University of Zurich, 18-20 January 2024

This conference aims to take a fresh look at the diversity of surface landscapes in books and other multi-layered objects.

Lecture: ‘Entanglement in Shared Cultural Spaces: Hebrew Book Art in Iberia, c. 1300’, with Katrin Kogman-Appel, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, 17 Jan 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)

Katrin Kogman-Appel explores how Hebrew Bibles from Tudela and Perpignan circa 1300 blend Islamicate and Gothic styles, and were influenced by diverse cultural encounters and urban settings.

New Working Group: ‘Medieval Manuscripts Working Group’, Merton College, Oxford University

This is a new seminar series whose goal is to foster a community at Oxford University, and beyond, of those who study medieval manuscripts.

New Publication: ‘Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image’ by Stephanie Rumpza

Check out this new publication which develops a fresh and original approach to the icon by weaving together the interdisciplinary strands of aesthetics, Byzantine studies, theology, and phenomenology.